Facts about Friedrich Nietzsche

Summary

Friedrich Nietzsche (born as Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche in Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia, died in Weimar, Saxony, German Empire) was a famous Philosopher from Germany, who lived between October 15, 1844 and August 25, 1900. She became 55 years old.

Biography

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philologist, but that in the future is best known for his philosophical thoughts. He became professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland at the age of 24, but his first book, Die Geburt where Tragödie (1872), which he dedicated to composer Richard Wagner, had a disappointing reception. He continued writing a number of unusual and revolutionary works, often ambiguous, often expressed in the form of aphorisms, which attacks truths in the Western intellectual tradition. Among the attacks he was God, morality, truth and democracy. In Ecce Homo, his own assessment of himself, he described himself as the first umoralist. The composer Richard Wagner and philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer exercised an important early influence on Nietzsche, but he freed himself later from their thinking and developed it further. Nietzsche further developed including the concept of nihilism, and would be of great importance for European philosophy and literature around the turn of the century.

His most famous books is Also sprach Zarathustra and Jenseits von Gut und Bose. Programmatically of Nietzsche's phrase Gott ist tot (God is dead). This phrase comes verbatim from the text "tolle Mensch There" from 1889 ("That crazy man") but are set forth in section two of Also sprach Zarathustra (1883-85), as part of a dialogue between the protagonist and an old man. After a breakdown in Turin, Nietzsche became insane and was cared for by his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. His sister, the widow of the anti-Semitic agitator Bernhard Förster (committed suicide in 1889), Nietzsche Archive created and contributed to his brother's name was known in Europe, but also distorted parts of his philosophy to make it better match the their own political opinions. In 1930 she became a member of the NSDAP and was eventually good contact with Adolf Hitler, with the result that Nietzsche soon became a sort husfilosof in the Third Reich.

Zodiac etc.

She is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection.
Our collection contains 168 quotes who is written / told by Friedrich, under the main topics: Art, Forgiveness, Love, Power, Women.

"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance"

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself"

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""

"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all"

"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book"

"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined"

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

"Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities"